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ˈcloak-room
a. A room near the entrance of any place of assembly, in which cloaks, coats, hats, etc., may be left; also, in recent use, an office at railway-stations, etc., where luggage of any description is temporarily taken charge of. Also freq. euphem. = lavatory 4. Also ellipt. and pl. cloaks.
a1852Moore Country Dance & Quad. ix. 34 The squires and their squiresses all..She in the cloak-room saw assembling. 1884G.W.R. Time-tables July 108 There are Cloak Rooms at all the Principal Stations. 1953Berg Dict. New Words 56/1 Cloakroom, euphemism for lavatory. 1957M. Sharp Eye of Love ii. 19, I got held up in the Cloaks. 1968P. Hobson Titty's Dead v. 63 Daphne's always first out of breakfast and straight into the girls' downstairs cloaks. No one would have noticed only she took a book and read in there.
b. attrib., as cloak-room attendant, cloak-room girl, cloak-room man, cloak-room system.
1914‘Saki’ Beasts & Super-beasts 180 He left all the parcels in charge of the cloak-room attendant. 1961Which? July 174/2 Most members always or usually tip cloakroom attendants.
1918A. Bennett Pretty Lady i. 3 The programme girls, the cigarette girls, the chocolate girls, the cloak-room girls.
1880Lamphere U.S. Govt. 265/1 Pages, laborers, and cloak-room men. 1900Westm. Gaz. 3 Nov. 2/3 The general confusion and disorder of our cloak-room system. |